The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-10-07

ESSENTIALS or rOrULAR 0OyE1N
NENT.
In his admirable closing prayx( q
tho centennial celebration Cardinal
Gibbons defined the whole theory q
popular government in these words:
Nay this nation, Under Thy. oversulirg
providence, BE- . model TO al nations IN mp
holding liberty without license and IN Weld
pg authority without cespotism.
Liberty without license 10 es-
entail to the preservation Of popular
Institutions. Liberty must be regula-
ted by law-indeed tucre can be NO
liberty without Law. Those who ex-
pect to widen and broaden liberty By
breaking over all Observation-Disclosures
seek liberty outside the pale Of the
law-are unfit to be called American
citizens. No assault upon the rights Of
property, upon any pretense. can be
justified under a form Of government
where the people are the source Of
power, either in the name of morality
o n the pretended interest of labor.
Il popular institutions in this country
arc to survive another century, the
progress Of the anarchic spirit must
DO suppressed. the socialistic
tendency must be met. Social
ism is largely the outgrowth of discon-
tent which has been fomentcd by agi-
tators from Europe. These men have
not studied the American system of
government. They do not know Its
value. They have no conception Of
the power of tho ballot when rightly
thrown. They come hero with the
same notions of government inhibited
in their native land. There the re-
straint of law is irksome because it
bears unequally upon society. They
bring 10 this country the same hatred
OF legal restraints that they felt be-
yond the Atlantic. To the American
citizen law means protection, safety
aud the orderly administration of JUS
tice. To the socialist law means OPP
preston, aud license means liberty.
1t is a singular fact that Socialism had
its birth in Germany and that nearly
all the ST. cialistic leaders are
German irfidsls. They refuse to rec
ognize any authority, divine or human.
Immigrants vino are not well dis
ppsed toward American institutions
should not be permitted to become citl-
zens. Those who are SO disposed. from
whatever country, will find here a well
cou.e to all the rights of citizenship.
The American people have no inclina-
tion to refuse to persons OF foreign birth
who ask to become citizens in the true
sense. any right which they themselves
enjoy. 1t is, however. time that dis
elimination in granting citizenship
were made. Such only who, from o
patriotic motive ask to be admitted to
its rights and privileges, with a pur-
pose of yielding q cheerful obedience
to law, should be naturalized. The
Socialist and the Anarchist, who come
to SOW the seed of a vicious and dan
gcrous theory should not only be ex-
Guided from tho rights Of citizenship,
but should be driven out of the country.
Those who have, either by birth, or by
naturalization become citizens and have
counseled defiance to the law should be
disqualified as citizens. Instead of the
political motto: "Amcricans for native
Americans, ''as was proposcdby the Ma
tive American Convention, whlchre-
Gently gave birth to a new party, let us
adopt as our s%hibboleth, .America for
all lawabiding and order loving pe h.
of Whatever nationality or religious
persuasion"
1t is not a pleasant reflection that in
tho metropolis Of the Union, tho finan-
cial center of this great country, an inn
mense assemblage can be gathered to-
gether TO denounce the judgment of the
highest court of a state and that such
denunclation was greeted with shouts
of approval by men who, if they are
not American citizens, are enjoying the
protection Of American laws. 1t ia
proof of the lcniency of the law that q
non-citizen. who but lately wore the
garb of a convict, should be unmolest-
ed while making IN incendiary speech.
We cling, and rightful'y, to the free
dom of discussion; but the difference
between temperate criticism and incit-
ing to lawlessness mrst be observed.
Free speech is a boon which will not
be surrendered, but as the State pro.
tccts tho character of the individual
from libelous publication. so it should
protect society from incendiary
public %utterances. The exercise